To live in a world in which everything is simply handed to a given individual, without that individual having put forth both an honest effort as well as having made the incumbent preparation behind such, is not ever going to be the perfect world. While just about everyone appreciates a nice gift here and there, and a helping hand when such is needed, the bottom line is that most people don’t really want things simply handed to them, even when they claim that they do, for they know intuitively that the receiving of such without any corresponding contribution, often feels hollow and perhaps even undeserved.
The above signifies that in order for a life to really be lived well, that the person so living that life is going to have to prove themselves in some meaningful encounters and endeavors, in which, both their effort put forth as well as the end result from those encounters, is ultimately going to define that person as well as their life. That is to say, the things that we work hardest at achieving, almost always are those things that are most important to us, and when those achievements come at the personal cost of considerable time, sweat, blood, and tears, such is far more highly appreciated than anything else that simply is ours for the taking, or even ours for the asking.
Too many people wrongly believe that they want to live lives of leisure as if this will, by definition, provide them with the feelings of satisfaction, happiness,and fulfillment. Perhaps this is true for a few of those people, but in actuality,a life without conflict, and a life lacking tribulations as well as challenges, is not going to be a life that brings forth full satisfaction, for we are surely meant to be something more than mere purveyors of leisure; for rather instead we are meant to be achievers of something of real merit and importance to ourselves, as well as for our fellow sojourners.
Invariably, the things that really matter most to us, are those accomplishments in which we risked something of merit in order to achieve something of even greater merit; of which, for some of us, this means repeated battles and obstacles that have to be faced and eventually conquered. After all, the whole point of, for example, the school experience, is to not only to learn our subjects well, but to thereupon take that knowledge and thereby apply such into the real world, for the express benefit for our self, as well as for others.
This means that all the frustrations and disappointments that we face are not meant to defeat us, but rather are there to prod us to, again and again, get back up, reload, rethink, and to try again; for that which requires great sacrifice and dedicated persistence to achieve, is all the sweeter to the taste when we eventually rise up and accomplish such. That which we prize most, is that which we have struggled hardest to fairly gain. Our victory, though it need not be swift, most though come forth from our own efforts, for each of us has their own victorious race to run.